The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.